US4213277A - Method for dressing a grinding wheel - Google Patents

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US4213277A
US4213277A US05/899,221 US89922178A US4213277A US 4213277 A US4213277 A US 4213277A US 89922178 A US89922178 A US 89922178A US 4213277 A US4213277 A US 4213277A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B24—GRINDING; POLISHING
    • B24B—MACHINES, DEVICES, OR PROCESSES FOR GRINDING OR POLISHING; DRESSING OR CONDITIONING OF ABRADING SURFACES; FEEDING OF GRINDING, POLISHING, OR LAPPING AGENTS
    • B24B49/00—Measuring or gauging equipment for controlling the feed movement of the grinding tool or work; Arrangements of indicating or measuring equipment, e.g. for indicating the start of the grinding operation
    • B24B49/18—Measuring or gauging equipment for controlling the feed movement of the grinding tool or work; Arrangements of indicating or measuring equipment, e.g. for indicating the start of the grinding operation taking regard of the presence of dressing tools
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B23—MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B23F—MAKING GEARS OR TOOTHED RACKS
    • B23F23/00—Accessories or equipment combined with or arranged in, or specially designed to form part of, gear-cutting machines
    • B23F23/12—Other devices, e.g. tool holders; Checking devices for controlling workpieces in machines for manufacturing gear teeth
    • B23F23/1225—Arrangements of abrasive wheel dressing devices on gear-cutting machines

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  • the present invention relates to a new and improved method of intermittently dressing an axially adjustable plate-shaped or dished grinding wheel of a gear grinding machine.
  • the invention is concerned with a gear wheel-dressing method wherein the position of the ring-shaped portion or active rim of the grinding wheel is controlled and the grinding wheel is advanced or adjusted such that the active rim is retained at the same location independent of its wear.
  • the active rim is dressed one respective time within a predetermined dressing interval by means of at least one likewise axially advancable dressing tool.
  • dressing In order to obtain a high cutting efficiency of heavy-duty grinding wheels during grinding of gears, there prevails an important requirement as concerns dressing of the grinding wheel to prevent grinding wheel burn.
  • dressing As used herein there is to be understood an operation by means of which there is reestablished at the grinding wheel its original contour and sharpness. Therefore, this operation also is referred to as resharpening of the grinding wheel. Diamonds are predominantly used as the dressing tools.
  • Another and more specific object of the present invention aims at a new and improved method of dressing grinding wheels, which enables such operation to be performed without requiring any special experience and dexterity on the part of the operator, wherein nonetheless the dressing operation is accomplished, on the one hand, in a manner avoiding over-dressing of the grinding wheels so as to save material and increase longevity thereof, and, on the other hand, still adequately dressing such grinding wheel in order that it remains sharp and to avoid grinding wheel burns.
  • a further significant object of the present invention aims at providing a new and improved method for dressing grinding wheels in an automatic, highly efficient and accurate manner, which method is extremely reliable in operation and not readily subject to malfunction or breakdown.
  • the method aspects of the present development are manifested by the features that the dressing tool is always then advanced or fed if, within a dressing interval, the compensating advance or adjustment of the grinding wheel has fallen below a predetermined total magnitude or value.
  • the grinding wheel or disk may be advantageously fed by accomplishing a predetermined number of adjustment feeds thereof, such as in the order of about 1 to 10, preferably between 2 and 3 by way of example.
  • the method of the invention has the further advantage that there is prevented smoothing of the revolving grinding wheel by a dressing tool which only just bears thereat and slides over its active ring-shaped surface or rim and equally any bluntness or dullness of the dressing tool.
  • control device or means having an input side which is connected with a control unit controlling the position of the grinding wheel, and the output side of which control device is connected with a feed or advance drive for the dressing tool.
  • the control device embodies a counter, the counter state of which changes by one unit during each advance or adjustment feed of the grinding wheel.
  • This control device additionally is provided with a comparator which, upon reaching a predetermined counter state, triggers an activation signal for the feed drive of the dressing tool.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a dressing apparatus constructed according to the teachings of the present invention and useful for the practice of the method aspects;
  • FIG. 2 is a block circuit diagram of the control device illustrated in FIG. 1.
  • FIG. 1 Describing now the drawings, in the showing of FIG. 1 there is attached to a grinding spindle 1 of a gear grinding machine working according to the partial-rolling or partial-generating method a dished or plate-shaped grinding disk or wheel 2 which grinds, by means of a planar ring-shaped surface or active rim 2a, the tooth flanks of a not particularly illustrated gear defining a workpiece.
  • the grinding spindle 1 is mounted in a spindle bearing or support arrangement 3 having external threads 3a, and further, is guided to be axially displaceable but secured against rotation in a guide means or guide 4 which has only been partially shown in FIG. 1 to simplify the illustration.
  • Threaded onto the external threads 3a is a first ratchet wheel 5 for the positional adjustment or compensating advance or feed of the spindle support arrangement 3 together with the grinding spindle 1 in the direction of the arrow R.
  • This first ratchet wheel 5 is secured against axial displacement and can be rotated by an adjustment or feed drive 7 by means of a first pawl 6.
  • Fixedly connected with the first ratchet wheel 5 is a second ratchet wheel 8 serving for the return movement of the spindle support arrangement 3 together with the grinding spindle 1 in the direction of the arrow R', and for this purpose the second ratchet wheel 8 has teeth oppositely directed from those of the first ratchet wheel 5.
  • the second ratchet wheel 8 cooperates with a second pawl 9 and associated return movement drive or drive means 10.
  • the compensating advance or feed drive 7 and the return movement or return drive 10 are connected with a control element 11.
  • the pawls 6 and 9 each have associated therewith a respective deflector or diverter 12 which maintains the related pawl, in its retracted position, lifted-off from the associated ratchet wheel 5 and 8 respectively, so that each of the pawls 6 and 9, independent of the other, is capable of initiating a conjoint rotation of the ratchet wheels 5 and 8 in the one or other rotational sense, and thus, bringing about an axial compensating advance feed or return movement of the spindle support or mounting arrangement 3 together with the grinding spindle 1 and the grinding wheel 2 in the direction of the arrows R and R', respectively, as desired.
  • the grinding spindle 1 is rotatably drivable in the direction of the arrow P by means of a belt pulley 13 or equivalent structure which is secured thereat and a drive belt 14.
  • a feeler 15 here shown in the form of a double-arm lever 15a which is pivotably mounted upon a stationary axle or shaft 16 and coacts with a contact 17.
  • a suitable dressing tool 18 which is mounted at the end of a lever 19 which, in turn, is secured to a shaft 20. Attached to the shaft 20 is a pinion 21. Meshing with the pinion 21 is a gear rack 22 operatively connected with a dressing drive 23.
  • Contact 17 is connected with a control unit 24 which, in turn, is operatively connected with the control element 11 and also with a control device 25.
  • the control device 25 contains a display device 25a for the digital display of the number of compensating advance or feed movements of the grinding wheel 2 within a dressing interval.
  • Control device 25 also embodies a switch 25b for the pre-selection of the number of such advance or feed movements per dressing interval and a switch 25c for the pre-selection of a magnitude through which the grinding wheel 2 should be fed back at the start of each working operation.
  • the control device 25 is connected with a control element 26 which, in turn, is connected with a feed or advance drive 27 for the dressing tool 18.
  • the feed drive 27 coacts by means of a pawl 28 with a ratchet wheel 29.
  • This ratchet wheel 29 is threaded onto the external threads 30a of a shaft support or bearing arrangement 30 for the shaft 20 and is secured against axial displacement.
  • the shaft support arrangement 30 is axially displaceably guided and secured against rotation in the guide means 31 which has only been partially illustrated in FIG. 1 to simplify the showing.
  • the control element 26 is furthermore connected with a return drive 32 for the dressing tool 18.
  • This return drive or return feed drive 32 coacts by means of a pawl 33 with a ratchet wheel 34 which is fixedly connected with the ratchet wheel 29.
  • the pawls 28 and 33 have each operatively associated therewith a deflector or diverter 35 which maintains in a lifted position and related pawl in its retracted state from the associated ratchet wheel 29 and 34 respectively.
  • the position of the active rim or ring-shaped surface 2a of the wheel 2 is cyclically controlled, i.e., the feeler 15 is intermittently applied at the ring-shaped surface or active rim 2a.
  • the control unit 24 delivers a command for the positional adjustment or feed to the control element 11.
  • Such command turns-on the adjustment drive 7 which operates the first pawl 6.
  • the thus initiated positional adjustment or feed of the grinding wheel 2 is monitored by the control device 25, the display device 25a of which visually displays the number of adjustment feeds or compensating advances.
  • a pulse is delivered to the feed drive 27 for the feed or advance of the dressing tool 18.
  • the dressing drive 23 receives a pulse from the control element 26, so that the lever 19 together with the dressing tool 18 is rocked past the active rim or ring-shaped surface 2a of the grinding wheel 2.
  • each pulse there is extinguished at the display device 25a the summed up number of compensating advance or feed movements of the grinding wheel 2.
  • the pre-selection counter 36 is connected by means of a first connection point or terminal 39 with the control unit 24 and by means of a second connection point or terminal 40 with the control element 26, and furthermore, is connected with the display device 25a, a monitoring device or unit 38 and one output 36a of the pre-selection counter 36.
  • the pre-selection counter 36 is adjustable by means of the switch 25b and can transfer its contents to the display device 25a.
  • the monitoring device 38 controls the functional course of the comparator 37, the pre-selection counter 36 as well as the display device 25a.
  • Integrated in the monitor or monitoring device 38 is a clock generator which determines the duration of a dressing interval.
  • the comparator 37 sums the input signals received by means of the first connection point or terminal 39 and compares the result of this summation operation in each case with the value or magnitude which has been set at the preselection counter 36. Upon exceeding the set value the comparator 37 delivers a pulse train or pulse-like signal which appears at the second connection point or terminal 40 whenever there has been completed a dressing interval. Now, if within a dressing interval the grinding wheel-adjustments or feeds are such that they fall considerably below such set value of magnitude, then at the end of the dressing interval there is available a multiple of the signal, corresponding to the amount that the grinding wheel-adjustments or feeds have fallen below the set value, and thus, there is triggered a greater positional adjustment of the dressing tool 18. If, on the other hand, during a dressing interval the set value is appreciably exceeded, then at the end of the dressing interval there is only made available part of the signal, and thus, there is triggered a corresponding return positioning or movement of the dressing tool 18.
  • the display device 25a is controllable by means of the monitoring device or unit 38 in such a manner that it is selectively visually displays the number of accomplished positional adjustments or feeds of the grinding wheel 2, i.e., the input signals which have been added in the comparator 37, or the number of feed units of the dressing tool 18.

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